Jordan - Age dependency ratio (% of working-age population)

The latest value for Age dependency ratio (% of working-age population) in Jordan was 58.25 as of 2020. Over the past 60 years, the value for this indicator has fluctuated between 109.04 in 1980 and 58.25 in 2020.

Definition: Age dependency ratio is the ratio of dependents--people younger than 15 or older than 64--to the working-age population--those ages 15-64. Data are shown as the proportion of dependents per 100 working-age population.

Source: World Bank staff estimates based on age distributions of United Nations Population Division's World Population Prospects: 2019 Revision.

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Year Value
1960 91.58
1961 92.46
1962 93.06
1963 93.57
1964 94.26
1965 95.33
1966 96.63
1967 97.33
1968 97.65
1969 97.61
1970 97.10
1971 98.63
1972 99.99
1973 101.02
1974 101.53
1975 101.50
1976 105.03
1977 107.19
1978 108.27
1979 108.77
1980 109.04
1981 107.59
1982 106.53
1983 105.53
1984 104.24
1985 102.66
1986 101.60
1987 100.06
1988 98.41
1989 97.03
1990 95.95
1991 91.34
1992 87.58
1993 84.26
1994 81.00
1995 77.69
1996 77.42
1997 76.79
1998 75.95
1999 75.13
2000 74.43
2001 73.67
2002 72.96
2003 72.29
2004 71.67
2005 71.21
2006 70.95
2007 70.63
2008 70.33
2009 70.06
2010 69.80
2011 69.38
2012 68.81
2013 68.09
2014 67.16
2015 65.93
2016 64.59
2017 63.12
2018 61.53
2019 59.89
2020 58.25

Development Relevance: Patterns of development in a country are partly determined by the age composition of its population. Different age groups have different impacts on both the environment and on infrastructure needs. Therefore the age structure of a population is useful for analyzing resource use and formulating future policy and planning goals with regards infrastructure and development.

Limitations and Exceptions: Because the five-year age group is the cohort unit and five-year period data are used in the United Nations Population Division's World Population Prospects, interpolations to obtain annual data or single age structure may not reflect actual events or age composition. For more information, see the original source.

Statistical Concept and Methodology: Dependency ratios capture variations in the proportions of children, elderly people, and working-age people in the population that imply the dependency burden that the working-age population bears in relation to children and the elderly. But dependency ratios show only the age composition of a population, not economic dependency. Some children and elderly people are part of the labor force, and many working-age people are not. Age structure in the World Bank's population estimates is based on the age structure in United Nations Population Division's World Population Prospects. For more information, see the original source.

Aggregation method: Weighted average

Periodicity: Annual

General Comments: Relevance to gender indicator: this indicator implies the dependency burden that the working-age population bears in relation to children and the elderly. Many times single or widowed women who are the sole caregiver of a household have a high dependency

Classification

Topic: Health Indicators

Sub-Topic: Population